Objectives
The inception workshop aims to bring together policymakers, researchers, practitioners, private sectors and other stakeholders of Lao PDR to discuss the challenges and opportunities of clean cooking in Lao PDR and identify the appropriateness of a pilot project to accelerate the uptake of electric cookstoves. The key objective of this event is to discuss:
- discuss challenges and opportunities to clean cooking in Lao PDR;
- share lessons and experiences from existing projects aiming to promote clean cooking;
- identify barriers to accelerating the uptake of clean cooking with focus on electric cookstoves; and
- inform stakeholders about the proposed pilot project on e-cooking and solicit feedback.
Expected outcome
The workshop will contribute to a better understanding of the key challenges to achieve universal access to clean cooking in Lao PDR and identify opportunities and a suitable mechanism to implement the pilot e-cooking pilot project.
